Odd time signatures

- Asymmetrical or complex time signatures…have five or seven beats per measure.…More often, you might hear these called odd time signatures.…Rhythms based off of these have different feels…than rhythms based on twos, threes, and fours.…Five and seven beat rhythms date back…to ancient Greece and Persia,…and are still used in many traditional musics…around the world.…Like Hungarian folk music, and Indian folk and pop music.…They're also often used in jazz tunes…and in prog rock tunes.…

Such as in Pink Floyd's song Money.…Where the main riff is in 7/4 time.…Possibly the most well-known song in 5/4 time…is Dave Brubeck's classic Take Five.…The essence of that beat goes something like this.…One, two, three, four, five.…(drum beats)…When counting odd time signatures…it's good practice to break them up…into groupings of twos and threes,…and add emphasis when counting.…

Like one-two, three, four-five,…one-two, three, four-five.…Or even make it more simple one-two, one-two-three,…one-two, one-two-three.…If I play a different beat in five like this beat in 5/8…

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3/17/2017

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating rhythm on drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft on their instruments.

Music producer and record label owner David Franz starts the course with the building blocks of rhythm: counting, notes, measures, rests, rhythm notation, subdivisions, and tempo. He then explains time signatures, discussing common, compound, and asymmetrical time signatures, as well as double time and half time, and how to choose the time signature for a song. Next, he discusses the concepts of feel and timing, including dynamics, accents, articulations, tempo changes, swing, syncopation, polyrhythms, and playing ahead of, on, and behind the beat. Along the way, David demonstrates all of these concepts by playing musical examples on drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocals.